Getting Over the Mid-Season Hump

By the time you read this piece, you’re in the middle of the season and have a pretty good idea of how things will turn out. The best thing about the pre-season is feeling your kids out – who’s going to be a contender and who’s going to be a pretender. By now, at least you would think to have a handle on that. Hopefully, for most of us, we’re riding a win streak or rapidly progressing into “mid-season form”… whatever that means. For some of us, we have to deal with disappointment – maybe some injuries or some key turnovers down the stretch has caused us to sink deeper into mediocrity. Welcome to October, we’ve reached the grind of the season. I’ve been on both ends and can tell you with no doubt of certainty that mid-October living with five wins under your belt just feels a lot better. But regardless of our win-loss record, I think now is the time that we really